Our first dive today wasn't sea dragon related, but we still came across some great animals like this group of spider crabs (there must have been 50 or more on the surrounding stumps) and this soldierfish.
Spider crabs (Photo: Jeremy Brodt)
We did yet another sunset/evening dive in an attempt to catch some weedy sea dragon breeding behavior, but unfortunately the water visibility wasn't very good so it was harder to find dragons. We did find a few, but they often became distracted by our presence and would swim away.
Regardless, the dive was quite eventful thanks to a curious juvenile Australian fur seal that became interested by my presence.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
#11: Spider crabs, soldierfish and Australian fur seal footage
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